Re: roses for hot dry climate

We've just had a couple of weeks of extremely hot weather, often reaching 40C. (Adelaide, South Australia) We also have water restrictions, can only use sprinklers once a week. All my roses, including Austins have sailed through except for 'Lamarque' which has died. It was about 2m high but I suspect the 
heat was just the final straw as it had been ravaged by possums.

Liz



nofsmith@iinet.net.au wrote:


Rosa mutabilis is a real star in our hot, dry summers north of Perth, Western
australia. It never stops bloomong and gets very little quite alkaline bore water.

Robin








Quoting khe36747 <khe36747@bigpond.net.au>:


I have a wide range of roses from species roses through to David Austen roses
and have never had one that did not thrive in the 'hot and dry'. Has any one?
The ones I keep in pots get a bit of grey water but the rest seem to be
thriving in clay that is dry down to at least three feet. What they are
surviving on is a mystery to me. The rambler 'Wedding Day' is covering a
fence about as long as a tennis court. Banksias do well here but frosts cut
off the flowers about half the time.

Margaret Healey
Regional Victoria, Australia
----- Original Message ----- From: Alexandre Leonardo To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:48 PM 
 Subject: roses for hot dry climate
hello can anyone advise me on choosing a rose for hot dry climate. I'm in south 
Portugal, where summers are very dry and temperatures can reach 40ºC very
easily. Never had roses so I have no experience with them.
 Thanx
 Alex


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